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SorvraIk,Conii.v Juesday f^irin^ ttdnary 17, is»3. -^sasssssa SJlIlllS.
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NORWiS ^Gazette.
THE FAVORITE HOME PAPER.
I&cLspsMent ia all tMnss; fentral in noting.
The Gazette has the largest clr-oulation
of any paper In Norwalk,
and furnishes the lowest advertising
rates.
Senatorial.
The Legislature convened at noon
to-day and will prpeeed at once to the
election of U. S. Senator. The demo­crats
have complimented Hon. Carlos
French by their nomination, but as
the republicans have fourteen majority
in the body they will elect General
. Joseph R. Hawley for a third term of
six years. The Senate and House vote
separately to-day at noon and then
meet in joint convention to-morrow,
Wednesday noon.
In the New York Legislature to-day
the same ceremonies are to be gone
through with. The democratic nomi­nee,
Mr. Murphy, the Troy brewer,
will be elected, although strongly
against the expressed opposition of
President-elect Cleveland. Murphy will
succeed Hisopck, republican, in the
Senate.
The Other Side.
Anent the interesting. Borough Clerk
controversy, which has so e ngaged the
public attention, it transpires that it is
not because of the apparent contradic­tion
between the Borough charter and
Borough by-law in regard to the meth­od
of electing this officer, as has been
generally supposed, but the contention
is based on the peculiar wording of the
resolution by which the election of
Mr. Hubbell * was presumed to have
been carried. The resolve which is in
possession of asst. clerk, E. M. Lock-wood,
is in these word?
"Rasolved—That James T. Hubbell
be and he hereby is appointed clerk of
the Court of Burgesses."
Sec. 3, pago 10 of the Borough char­ter
specifically says that the Clerk of
the "Borough," shall be chosen by the
Burgesses, etc. "So that the hair split­ting
falls on the words "Clerk of the
Court of Burgesses," which should
have read, the contestants say, "Clerk
of the Borough." The intent to elect
Mr. Hubbell is clear enough and the
power to elect him by the method
adopted, seems to be admitted, but on
a legal technicality, Messrs. Hurlbutt
and Lockwood claim the board failed
to execute the powers conferred by the
charter by reason of the error in the
wording of the resolution. They fur­ther
assert that no "official'1 or legal
notice has been served on them that
their successors have been appointed;
that they continue in possession of all
the books and records of the Borough
appertaining to their clerkly duties and
that no demand has been made upon
them for a delivery of the same to any
other party, as clerk or otherwise.
This is the position of the old clerks as
stated to the GAZETTE, and it is plain to
see that from their standpoint there is
eupugh in it to hinge quite a lawyerly
contention. The broad, general prin-
; pie involved, however, is not substan-
" tiall.y affected, or changed, that four is
a majority over three and can, as the
four Democratic members of the Bor­ough
board believe, they already have
choBen Messrs. Hubbell and Weed as
Borough Clerk and Assistant Clerk.
Nor will the ethics of the situation be
altered in the average popular Blind,
that few men would want to force
themselves up to a dinner table to
which they were not invited, and cs-pecially
where the party raided upon
is known to be determinedly hostile to
the invasi n. Nevertheless we shall
see what we shall see;
Election at Middletown.
At the Middletown city election yes­terday
the Democrats succeeded in
electing clerk, treasurer, five council-men
and two aldermen. The Republi­cans
elect collector and one councilman.
Biennial City Elections. '
In the Bridgeport city council last
night Councilman Kelley offered a
resolution oalling for biennial city
elections, and it was passed. Council­man
Otis offered a resolution placing
all city boards under the control of
the council. Both motions will go be­fore
the legislature.
zmL* iThe Pole Broke.
A party of twenty-six ladies and gen­tlemen
went'to Stamford.lafet night for
a sleigh-ride. The "barge" Wellington
1 was placed on runners and four horses
attached to the bame. The party start­ed
shortly after 7 o'clock in great glee.
Arriving at Stamford they enjoyed a
; supper, and about 12:30 o'clock started
' for home. AJS they were coming up
; Noroton Hill, the pole horses shied and
• succeeded in breaking the pole It
could not be repaired then, and the
party were forced to walk back to Stam-
; ford, where they put up at a hotel for
the rest of th« night, returning home
on an early morning train.-s^ .
TERSE TALES OF THt TIMES.?
Mr. Z. C. Bush is very sick at his
home on Wilton avenue.
Mi
Four degrees below zero at 7 o' clock
this morning, on Wall street.
In Danbury they call fish markets af­ter
the Boston style, sea food stores. ^
William Taylor of Danbury, was
calling on friends in town, yesterday.
Mrs. John W. Craw of Brooklyn, is
a guest at" William Mitchell's "Rock
Cottage." -
The Borough meeting last night was
one of the largest ever held in the
Town House. .
Miss Ruth Allen of Norwalk, is the
guest of Miss Alice Morgan, of York
street, New Haven. -
The Phoenix boys were out on their
double-dipper again yesterday. Thev
were armed with fish horns.
The trotters were out on the avenue
yesterday afternoon. The " king of
all" was driven by Woodhull. -
—$5 Hanging Lamps reduced to
54.99, 83.50 Lamps reduced to $3.4s>.
H. H. Williams, 15 Wall street. 524-tf
Jeremiah Foley is dead at Stamford
aged 67 years. He was a philosopher,
poet and clam-digger, and never mar­ried."
- :
—Now get the Delineator for Febru­ary
at Benedict's. 524-2t
The Danbury News electric clock
froze* Sunday night, and no wonder for
the mercury denoted 12 degrees below
zero.
—Toilet Paper at Benedict's. Yes !
and a good box of Writing Paper for
10c can be found there. -: ^ 524-2t
Suit against Wm. E. Street of Darien
has been commenced by F. Clark of
Norwalk, who some time ago was bit­ten
by Street's dog.
Isaac Pressy, of Stamford, father of
Capt. I. N. Pressy of this place, and
who has been very sick is reported as
being somewhat better. _.
A young man was arrested last night
for creating a disturbance in ''Satf-dust''
Price's restaurant. He. will be
tried to-morrow morning, r ^
One hundred and eighty-seven years
ago to-day Benjamin Franklin, printer,
electrician, philosopher and patriot
leader, was born in Boston.
A number of Danbury society people
will attend the promenade concert of
the. Knob Outing club, in South Nor­walk,
Wednesday night.—News.
Happy is the coal dealer this zero
weathe>, and happier far is the poor
man whose credit is still solid with the
dispenser of the black diamonds.
A few copies of the DAILY GAZETTE
of December 10th, 1892, containing a
oondensed history of Catholicism in
Norwalk, can be obtained at this office
Thomas Farr, who was injured by a
buzz-saw at the Corsetjfactory the oth­er
day, is getting along nicely. Mr.
Farr is in the employ of Builder Sher­wood.
,
Dr. H. A. Fox, of Dftnbury, while
suffering from a temporary derange­ment
jumped out of the window of his
office in the'second story, yesterday,
fracturing his thigh.
Liverymian Dann will take out two
sleighing parties to-night. ;One a West-port
party whose objective point is
Bridgeport, and the other a part.y from
the Union'Mill s who propose going to
S t a m f o r d . . ' ~ -
An adjourned meeting of the First
Congregational church will be held in
the Chapel on Thursday evening,at 8
o'clock to hear reports of what has been
done the past year in its various de­partments
of work.
Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Thomas, a former
Norwalk M. E. divine, pronounced a
flowing eulogy upon Gen. B. F. But-er
at St. Paul's church, Lowell, Sun­day
evening. Mr. Thomas was a chap­lain
in the Army of the James.
The United States Coast' and Geo­detic
Survey for December, in its
chart corrections contain two on Long
Island Sound; the change in Cornfield
Point Light vessel, and the new black
can buoy at the entrance to Bridge­port
harbor. " --
Senatorial elections wiU occur to day
in the following states': Massachusetts.
Conneotiout, Minnesota, Maine, Dela­ware,
Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
California election was held Jan. 10
and New Jersey, Kansas and West
Virginia will hold their senatorial elec­tion
on Jan. 24. . In-Florida the elec­tion
is not held until April .18, and
Senator Pasco will hold over until his
successor is elected. ^. ^
—The place, A. H. Hoyt St Son, 37
Wall street; Occasion, annual sale, odd
lots. Ladies French kid hand and
machine sewed shoes from $3 to $5
regular price. • We are going to clean
them out at" $1.60/ Also lot regular
price from 32 to $3.50 are going for
$1.25. Also for 30 days commencing
January 15th we will make our yearly
reduction of 50c on every pair of shoes
selling at $2.50, $3.00, S3.50, $4.00,
$4.50 and $5.00. These are regular
lines, well-known by our customers A.
. H. Hoyt & Son.jjK->; v- sS^22 3t
US' SIS 3
Hope Hose Company will hold a so­ciable
at their house next Thursday
jevemng. • • * «
Fields aud Hanson's famous Vauder-ville
show at Music Hall, South Nor­walk,
to-night.
Ex-President R. B. Hayes had a
serious attack . of neuralgia of the
heart, yesterday.
It is stated that a young man living
in Rowayton will wed a Norwalk
widow ere many weeks.
Reports from Washington say that
the backbone of the cold wave is broken
and that warm weather will follow
soon."
Grumman Long, who some years
ago enjoyed the distinction of being
the ''boss fiddler" in this section of the
county was in town this morning.
Messrs. J. K. Raymond and Alva,
Look wood, have purchased th e Adams
market on Main street, The firm
name will be Raymond & Lockwood.
USE DANA'S S ARS AP ARILL A .IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES." .-
Parson Davies of the Greens' Farms
Congregational church will make a
statement to the congregation. If it is
not satisfactory it is understood he will
leave the pulpits
The First Congregational church so­ciety
has engaged the quartette choir
of the South Norwalk Methodist
church. The present choir will be dis­banded
May 1st;
—Hale's Lung Balsam is prepared
from a prescription of a leading phy­sician
and contains-nothing injurious,
is perfectly safe for the youngest
child. Samples free. 524 tf
Remember the meeting in the Meth­odist
church this evening at 7:45 o'clock.
Fine singing by the chorus choir, from
the "Finest of the Wheat." Youug
people and Sunday-school work era spec­ially
invited.
—The stock of Tobacco and Cigars is
always complete at .Benedict's News
depot; hence the large trade he enjoys
in that line. A word to the wise is suf­ficient.
524-2t .
The Rev. Samuel Scoville of the
Congregational church at Stamford, a
son-in-law of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, is making a crusade against
the saloons and gambling establish­ments
in that town.
Cheshire has neither a lawyer nor a
saloon. The next meeting of the
Cheshire -Debating club will discuss
the grave question : "Shall wo import
a lawyer to attract a saloon, or open a
saloon to attract a lawyer ?''
USE DANA'S «ARSAP ARILL A, IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES".
. Ex-Senator D. M. Head, Captain
John Mc Neil and E. N. Sperry of
Bridgeport left yesterday for Washing­ton.
D. C., as delegates from Bridge­port
of the national board of trade, to
b# held to-day at the Stioreham hotel.
A Wise Precaution. • "Oi never see
Mamie goin' to school without her rub­bers
on, Missus Flannigan.
"No; she has to cross the electric
railway thrack, and her fayther thinks
it would be the safest for to wear insu-lathors."—
Harper's Bazar.
The Grand Lodge of the state of
Connecticut meets to-morrow in New
Haven and Mr. Maples' case is to come
up for consideration on charges of
cunduct unbecoming a Mason, while
a member of St. John's Lodge.
Officer Martin found Martin Mulli­gan
stretched out in the Bnow back of
E. K. Lookwood's store, this morn­ing,
and placing him under arrest took
him to the station-house to thaw out
and recover his equilibrium.
A telegram was reoeived by Dr. Van
Alstyne yesterday forenoon announc­ing
the serious and probably fatal ill­ness
of Mrs. VanAlstyne's mother,Mrs.
Amy Dana, living at Waterloo, Iowa.
Mrs. V. left at 2:30 p. m. in order, if
possible, to see her mother before she
might pass away.
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES."
r; Co-Insurance.
A meeting of the local board of fire
underwriters was held at the office of
Clarence B. Coolidge yesterday after­noon,
to take action on the co- nsur-ance
clause which was put in operation
January 1st by the New England Ex­change.
The full board was present.
A.committee consisting of Clarence B.
Coolidge and Richard H. Golden was
appointed to confer with other boards
in Fairfield County, and report at a
meeting to be held at the same hour
and place next Monday afternoon.
An illustration of the working of
the system is as follows: -
Suppose a piece of property vilued at
$10,000 is insured for $8,000, 80 per
cent, of its value. In case of any lo?3,
whether partial or total, it is paid in
full by the companies up to the face of
the policy. If the property is insured
for $5,000, 50 per cent, of its value, in
case of partial loss f of the loss is paid
by the companies, and the assured re­ceives
no indemnity for the remaining
f of the lost. If the same property is
insured for $1,000, 10 per cent, of its
value,'in case of partial loss £ of the
loss is paid by the companies, and the
assured receives no indemnity for the
remaining $ of the loss. In each of
the above cases if the loss is total, the
companies pay full face values of the
policieS.»^M®®^^j<;
The Oysterrnen To Act.
• The Oystermen's Protgctire associa­tion
will meet at Nprwalk this evening
to consider the report of a coiniaittee
which will rebommend the iegi^tering
and numbering of all -boats wot kin g on
the state natural bedsj and also the
establishment of: a ' jelose season, to
allow the young 6ysfers„ to; get a start.
These moves will ^e of great advantage
to the oystermen 'and: ivill probably b(B
recommended, to 'the Legislature • for
action.;, . - . . .. ».
, The Potfce Casfe' " "V' ~
Among the Failfield. county (sases
that are to come udCbeforett^Bupreme
court of errors apthja' sfesiioii Which
opens to-day, is |lie caifti^ol "Chief
Rylands of Bridgeport, agaiiisfc ex-Cap­tain
John P. Pidp4}rinan.--The case
will be argued oft 1 liesday of: next
week and a decision wlll be rendered
probably within 4: stor* time: after­ward.
V v'.;--
The motion of J«jhn Hawley, .the ®irr
migham murdererr> for a .new \tri&l£ lis
also to come up. $£ . .. ~ .^§7
••
They All
When everybod$^?ho was. interested
in the matter supposed that a recoi'jiof
the vote of the Conhecticut presidential
electors was well .on its way to Wash­ington,
State Secretary Phelon reoei^d
notice that if he wanted th^JUn'i|ed
States Senate to He ih'forme&of how
Connecticut voted| he • had^Better^get-some
stamps on a letter then lyinig;.in
the Hartford post|office. The-stanipi
were at once speeded down towiT, Land
the letter which had .been .pqste^'Un­stamped
was prone^y prepared for the
mails. Nobody confesses to being1 to
blame for the mistake.—Courant. . f'
, r O b i t u a r y • : • > .
Mr. Erastus R. Phelps died at five
o'clock yesterday afternoon,at the.home
of his daughter Mrs. Julia Wilson, No.
8 Arch street, in thp 87th year of his
age. Deceased was born in Hebron,
but until the death of his wife some
six years ago had lived in New Haven,
since which time he had resided with
his daughter. He was a memb-r of a
Now. Ha^en lodge' of Odd Fellows.
The remains will be taken to New Ha­ven,
Thursday morning for interment.
Grade Crossings.
The laws of Connecticut require that
fhe number of railroad crossings at
grade in that state shall be decreased
gradually, but the report of the rail­road
commissioners shows that the
number of such crossings on one road
was increased last year by the addition
of 11. It is true tliat the whole num­ber
in the state Jias fallen from 1,157 to
1,140, but while certain companies have
complied with the statute, at least one
corporation has been permitted, to vio­late
its provisions. Some years ago
the Connecticut commissioners at­tempted
to defend their action in per­mitting
the construction of new and
dangerous crossing at grades by saying
the company so offending was poor and
ought to be assisted in order that it
might meet the competition of wealthy
rivals. That defense did not commend
the wisdom of the commissioners to
the people. If the commissioners can­not
reduce the number of existinjg
grade-crossing traps, surely they ought
to prevent the construction of new
ones.—New York Times. ~
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES. "
Musical Notes.
A call for a meeting to consider the
possibility of organizing a choral so­ciety
is a move in the right direction.
There are plenty of good voices in
Norwalk, and why should thejr not or­ganize
and work together for the ad­vancement
of music. The choral so­ciety,
which is a later growth of the
old fashioned singing school, is a bene­fit
to any city or town where it exists.
Witness the Oratorio Society of Stam­ford,
which has done excellent work
for some years past. In Noroton there
is a choial society, small indeed but
flourishing. The music loving people
of Mount Vernon have recently organ­ized
a society .which is well under way.
A movement is now on foot for the
same purpose in New Canaan, and Sil­ver
Mine is demanding a class in sight
singing.
All this goes to prove that our corner
of New England is alive to the advan­tages
of music as a means of education,
culture and refinement, and though all
these efforts may not be . equally suc­cessful,
yet some good will surely re­sult.
.
There is a curious story told in musi-sical
history concerning the well known
tune "We won't go home till morning."
In 1799, when the army of the first Na­poleon
was in Egypt, his camp was at
one time near the pyramids. In the
afternoons when the band played the
natives gathered around to listen to
the music. (It seems that a brass band
can drawva crowd even in the desert.)
The people were orderly enough until
one afternoon when the musicians
struck up the tune just mentioned. In
"^n instant the Bedouins began the
jvildestTdemonstrations, of joy. They
shouted, danced, and embraced each
other in a perfect delirium of pleaeure.
An investigation revealed the, fact that
this music was a great favorite with
them and the oldest tune of these peo­ple
of the desert.'
It seems that the origin of the tune
is a complete mystery, but that in the
Eleventh century it was taken by the
Crusaders from Europe to Africa, and
had lived separately iu both countries
for over 700 years. . _
Surely if age is a standard, We
wOn?t go home tilLmorning" should A>e
considered classical music of a very
high order. H. H. JB||
iPJ_I_S PSi A Verdict for Six Cents. :|pg,
PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 17.—The jury In
the Haines-Herrick libel case came in
last night with a verdict of six cents
damages for'the plaintiff. • - - r
|g| A Good One on "Scofe." |J|
There has long existed a good na-tured
yet . earnest rivalry between two
neighboris residing on near, yet quiet
and sedate, Belden avenue, as to which
should secure the finest and choicest
brands of cider. This competition ran-more
fieroe the past fall than us­ual,
for the reason chiefly we presume,
that the last apple crop was a failure
and ergo, cider, scarce and high, and
with a chronic tendency towards being
reduced by illicit contact with the hon­est
farmers' cooling wells or springs of
water. By way of a clearer designa­tion
we will denominate one of these
rivals the east-sider and the other the
west-sider. Now, it eventuated early
in the Autumn,, that the West-sider got
a really superior though very small,
installment from patriotic and thrifty
"Comstock Hill" that was conceded a
little ahead of anything shown on Bel­den
avenue up to that date. This ex­cited
the spirit of commercial rivalry
in the breast of the East-sider at once.
He resolved to beat Comstock Hill's
product, or perish in the endeavor. So
he scoured Darien, Stamford^ North
Stamford and White Oak Shade; got
divers "samples." but all proved to be
below grade. At length he heard of
an honest Teuton, a man from the ro­mantic
and lesjendery wine producing
land'of the Rhone and the Rhine, who
having come to America and settled on
high, sightly and salubrious Belden
Hill, had essayed to throw all the in­herited
skill and talent of his wine
making ancestors for ten centuries, in­to'the
manufacture of sound, solid, un-impeaohed
and unimpeachable Con­necticut
apple juice. The friend from
the Fader land had carefully hand
picked his Roxbury Russets at the
latest period of safety. Had piled them
high on the cool barn floor, covered
with clean rye straw—so that they
might there tweat, and mellow and
ripen to the exact point of perfect
juice—or so he said he did. East-side
was not long in urging his coal black
steeds up to the good German's house.
The visitation was rapidly explained,
and the enthusiastic Rhinelander, flat­tered
at such unexpected attention,
effusively protested that.he had "Ciders
dat was so petter ash good ash never
vasand forthwith hurried for a test­ing
sample in his wife's choicest bric-a-
brac milk pitcher. * "Now you tastes
and you schmelles dat ciders and you see
dot it is ish so petter as lager-peer.
Yahs, 'it is so petter ' as all de Rhine
wines as ish made; de- Zinfaudel, La-rose,
Medoc, Lafits, Yquem, BougeOt,
Chablis, Beaujolais, Qautent, Johtin-nisburg,
Marcobrunner, ; Reedeschei-mer,
Stein win, Leibfraumlich,' Niers-teioner.
Laubeuheimer, Bodenheimer,
Hocheimer," and'a; dozen:other .Dutch
"Heimers" which Teuton rolled off in
such hurr'ed gutteral, as nearly took
East-side's breath away. He drank of
the cider,—once, twice and thrice—
'then confessed it was a pleasanter bev­erage
than any Rhine wine he" had
ever sampled, whether made in Ger­many,
France or New Jersey: An or­der
was promptly given for a forty-five
gallon cask of the melliflious apple
juice. It was to be delivered at once.
It came. West-side was invited over
to taste, and submit to humiliation and
defeat. But somehow, it had a peculiar
dead end insipid flavor, and left a dark.
brown taste in the mouth. East-side
admitted the soft and sweet impeach­ment
; in fact he remarked his sus­picions
that the bull-frog croaking
Dutchman, had doctored it with silicic
acid, to prevent fomentation and keep
it sweet and if he could'nt r<Sprackins
Deitcher" he could and would give
Mr. Rhinelander a piece of his m ind.
Up to this date, however, honors were
about eyen between the two rivals.
Then came an overtopping, a master­ful
triumph to West-side. The night
before Christmas, George Ed. Com­stock,
he of the Four Corners, swooped
down upon him and brought a royal
demijohn of his choicest russet juice,
for West-side to sustain life with over
the trying holiday period. This so un­questionably
broke the entire cider
record that West-side in triumph had
East-side at once sample it and then
defiantly demanded an unconditional
surrender. But East-side wanted a
few days trial; he had seen Teuton who
swore there had been no doctoring
done to his cider; that its flat taste all
came from his having put his big bar­rel
close up to his house-heating fur­nace,
and if he would carry it outside
he would soon find the' 'nip'' he craved,
would return to it. But East-side is a
prudent man and caution suggested
that he cool it off by smaller install­ments;
so he took an afternoon off,
gathered up all the empty and dejec­ted
champagne bottles he could find ;
rinsed them thoroughly, Med him
down to the drug store, bought new
corks, got boiling water and soaked
'em; jammed a lump of cut sugar and
a raisin into each bottle, then pressed
in the corks, carefully wiring each one
and then deftly carried all by the arm-full
out the cellar and removing tlie
lattice underneath . his back stoop he
hid them there in seried ranks like a
platoon of soldiers on guard. All this
time, he was muttering to himself that
he would show West-side a thing or
two in the cider line that would hum­ble
his pride and fill him with m'orti-fication
and dismay. He 'would let the
bottles stay there tilt the cider had a
chance to ripen, mellow and grow oily
and smooth by the freezing process
and then he would send for West-side,
uncork a bottle and cover him with
confusion. The cold snap accommo­dated
East-side by coming promptly.
In fact coining down to zero it came if
not a little to promptly at least a good
deal too strong, for when he got down
his back stoop lattice again, and es­sayed
to withdraw his cider -bot­tles,
lo, what did his- eager -eyes and
watering palate, behold .1;. His bottles,
as ihe expressed it, "all-busted" and tis
cider all, '/ira/>pe.-" It isn't safe to speak
of frozen cider-to' East-sider now, un­less
your lines of retredt are open. .,..
• - 111!..H... Cbld.
•' The thermometer at the residence of
Mr. Charles Arnold on Camp street
registered at half past seven this morn­ing
twelve below zero.
p§ _ Borough Meetings.
- AFTERNOON. - •
"*"*A fire was started in.the tuilding
known as the Town House, yesterday
morning, but the place was as ohilly as
a freshly filled ice house when some
thirty odd voters assembled for the pur­pose
of laying a tax to provide for the.
necessary expenses of the borough du­ring
the ensuing year.
Warden Sloan called the meeting to
•rder, at the same time thoughtfully
suggesting that as it was decidedly chil­ly
those assembled keep their hats on.
The call for the meeting as promul­gated
through the columns of the press
was read by Clerk Hubbell. He had
however scarcely finished before ex-assistant
borough clerk LockWood arose
and questioned the legality of the doc­ument
as read, an<l asked if the warden
had a certified copy of the same.
Winfield S. Moody stated that he
had read the call as published and
thought it to be in conformity with the
law in the premises.
Mr. Lockwood then said I • am here
in the absence of Mr. Hurlbutt, and as
his assistant, to perform tlie duties as
clerk, and have a certified copy of the
Cull in my possession.
He was courteously listened to after
which the Warden asked if there was
any remarks to be made on the subject
of the call.
John J. Walsh asked as to the in­debtedness
of the borough.
A suggestion was made that a 15
mill tax would be sufficient.
William Sheldon thought that an 18
mill tax ought to be voted. No court
of burgesses, with but one exception
had ever been able to get through with
a ten mill tax and that six mills of the
proposed tax had alieady been appro­priated
for macadamizing Main street.
Thomas McMullen made a motion
that a 15 mill tax be laid, which was
seconded by Mr. Moody.
Alfred E. Austin thought tfie bor­ough
should' be more economical.
Considered the Macdamizing of Mam
street an unnecessary expense, but as
it had been voted, of course it should
be paid for; thought that in view of
the fact that it would take a six mill tax
to pay for the macadam a fifteen mill
tax was not extravagant. The motion
•that a tax; of 15 mills be laid prevailed
with but one dissenting vote.
A motion to adjuurn then prevailed,
and the "sarcophagus" was quickly
emptied of the thirty odd voters who
stepped out chilled to the marrow but
with the proud satisfaction of a faith­ful
performance of .an imperious duty.
Strangely enough, though, no date
was decided upon for the levyingjof the
tax. ' ~—
EVENING. . '
A red hot stove greeted th& ^forge
.number of voters who assembledin the
evening, and the! robm was quite com­fortable,
something that had not been
the case in many moons.
The meeting was called to order by
Warden Sloan, and the call for the
meeting, which was to approve or dis­approve
of a certain by-law passed by
the Court of Burgesses December 5th,
18;)2, was read bv clerk Hubbell.
Mr: John J. Walsh them presented
the following resolution :
Resolved, That this meeting disap­prove
of the By-Law passed by the
Court of Burgesses, Dec. 5th, 1892, to-wit:
Be it ordained by the Court of Burgesses of
the Borough of Norwalk: That Section one
(1) of Chapter YII of the By-Laws of the Bor­ough
of Norwalk, is hereby amended to reid
as follows: * , „
SECTION 1. The Court of Burgesses shall
appoint not less than two nor more than six
members of a regular police force, each ot
whom shall hold office during good behavior.
That no member of said police force shall be
removed from office except for so d causo
shown at a public hearing had daring a law­ful
meeting of said Court, and that any mem­ber
of said force who is accused of misbehavior
shall be allowed to be present at such hearing
and he heard in his own' behalf, And said
Court of Burgesses phall appoint not more
than twenty-five special policemen, which lat­ter
shall act only as herein directed, and with­out
pay excepting as herein expressly al­lowed
; and shall also appointsuch officers, of
the two forces, from the members thereof re-spectfully
a8 it may from time to time deem
proper.
Borough of Norwalk. Conn., December 5th,
1892. s- ; Approved Dec. 5th. 1892.
- JOHN D. K1MMEY,
Warden.
The resolution was seconded by Mr.
Bernard C. Feeney.
The only one to» remark on the reso­lution
was Alfred E. Austin, who said
in substance that it was a shame that
any9 such by-law had been passed at
the time it was; it was not in good
taste or justice; if passed at- all it
should have been done at the begin­ning
of the year ; it was not right
either to the voters of the Borough or
the present incumbents of the police
force ; he hoped the resolution offered
by Mr. Walsh would prevail.
The ayes and noes were then called
for by Warden Sloan and the vote was
unanimous for the resolution.
Ihe meeting then adjourned, and the
much talked of meeting was a thing of
thepast. t >
^iTo Skate To Stamford.
Joe Donoghue, A. S. Franklin and
John Ennisof New York agreed yester­day
to skate 100 miles at Stamford,
Conn., for glory. They have been try­ing
fo$ sometime to make a match for
money, but could not arrange it.
' ' ' 'ffgCouncll Meeting.;
An adjourned meeting of the Board
of COuncilmen was held last evening at
the council chamber on Haviland
street. Mayor George Lockwood pro-"
sided and the full board was present.
Bills to the amount of $93.48 were pre­sented.
Petitions for the position of Street
Commissioner were received from C.
L. James and Wm. S. Wilcox. Tabled.
Petition was received from residents
of Stuart awnne for an electric light
to be placed at the corner of Vall9y
Place and Stuart avenue. Referred to
proper committee.
The next business before the meet­ing
was the balloting for a Chief Engi­neer
of the fire department^ The re­sult
of the ballot showed five votes
against Samuel McGowan's confirma­tion
and one in favor. The clerk was
then instructed to communicate with
the secretary of the fire department,
asking that he call a meeting of the de­partment
and have them, if they so
desired, present another name for the
consideration of the council before the
next meeting to be held Friday even­ing,
January 20th. «
Nelson Taylor's resignation as one
of the electric light commissioners was
received, read, and accepted -with a
vote of thanks to Mr. Taylor for the
efficient services he had rendered.
Councilman Yolk explained that Mr.
Taylor had accepted the position with
the understanding that he should re­sign
as soon as the new plant was com­pleted.
The meeting then adjourned until
Friday evening, January 20th, 1893, at
7.30 o'clock.
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' MUSIC HAMi.
The attraction at Music Hall to-night
is a new one, just placei on the road
this season but in the language of the
town small boy its a bully good show;
Singing, Dancing, Novelty and Sen­sation
and uproariously funny comedy
all have part in the excellent pro­gramme
and it is a foregone xsonclus-ion
that in Fields & Hansons Drawing
Cards we are to have a genuine treat,
Ktllar, the Pido-Manual Phenomenon
of Berlin is one feature alone worth
the admission.
^ KILLED BY ELECTRICITY. H
Kernel Lotli, the Murderer of Mrs. Dem-acselc
In ths DcatU Clialr.
DANNEM'OEA, N. Y., Jan. 17.—Kornel||||
Loth, a Hungarian, 26 years of age, met
death by electricity in Clinton prison at '
11.51 yesterday.mornifij^V . -F
-Th^ eScm! time of execution was asgg||
folio'.vs: Entry into, death cell, 11.401?5
a. m.; time occupied in strapping, 32^^
seconds; length of tirst contact, 50 sec-||g§
onds; interva. between contacts, 5 sec- |f®
onds; length of secorid contact, 3seconds;||||
entire time victim was in death chamber^!
until death was announced, 2 minutes 55|,r^
seconds.
The apparatus used was the same as thatgg?
in the other State prisons, and the sam«^
as used in the case of Wood last summer j •
at this prison. The only innovation wasi^
the introduction of the diminishing cur­rent,
wch the State electrician believes""-,
prevents any muscular or nervous reac-tion.
Loth had no friends and his body "
will be buried in quick lime in the prison
burial plot. . -> ,
? 7" The Farmers May Retaliate.' 1
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 17.—The black- - '
smiths in Lyons, Alloway and other""
places in Wayne county, have effected
combination, and one of the first things"^
to attract attention January 1, when thesp|
combination went into effect, was an in-|g|j
crease in the price of re-setting from 12%||g|
cents to 15 cents and for setting new shoes^
from 25 cents to 30 cents. The black-.,- -
smiths in Phelps did not enter this com-bination
and now the farmers are driving.^
several miles out of their way to reach apgg
non-alliance shop. Farmers talk of boy-; "
cotting the alliance. - ( "
5 "Winter Cholera iu Albany. £§|f|
'"^JBANY, N. Y., Jan. 17.-It is.stated by
the physicians at the City Hospital that ||g
there is an unusual amount of sickness in
this city at the prtesent time and the bos- |gg
pital is crowded. The majority of theggg
cases are of winter cholera and some of
them have resulted fatally.
Free Trip to Washington Records
Following is the score to date, of the
balloting iu the contest for the GA­ZETTE'S
free railroad ticket to Wash­ington,
D. C., and return, on the occas­ion
of President Cleveland's inaugura­tion
:
Bhody McGmnis
James M. Cre&gh.
E.N.Sloan „ ,
Oliver K Mumford
James T. Hubbell
Isaac Bowe
JSrauk Street
Thomas Ward Jr
James Mitchell
Owing to the large number of single ballots
handed in we have decided to publish th®
names only of those candidates Yjho have re­ceived
ten or more votes. - -pia-•- •
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NORWiS ^Gazette.
THE FAVORITE HOME PAPER.
I&cLspsMent ia all tMnss; fentral in noting.
The Gazette has the largest clr-oulation
of any paper In Norwalk,
and furnishes the lowest advertising
rates.
Senatorial.
The Legislature convened at noon
to-day and will prpeeed at once to the
election of U. S. Senator. The demo­crats
have complimented Hon. Carlos
French by their nomination, but as
the republicans have fourteen majority
in the body they will elect General
. Joseph R. Hawley for a third term of
six years. The Senate and House vote
separately to-day at noon and then
meet in joint convention to-morrow,
Wednesday noon.
In the New York Legislature to-day
the same ceremonies are to be gone
through with. The democratic nomi­nee,
Mr. Murphy, the Troy brewer,
will be elected, although strongly
against the expressed opposition of
President-elect Cleveland. Murphy will
succeed Hisopck, republican, in the
Senate.
The Other Side.
Anent the interesting. Borough Clerk
controversy, which has so e ngaged the
public attention, it transpires that it is
not because of the apparent contradic­tion
between the Borough charter and
Borough by-law in regard to the meth­od
of electing this officer, as has been
generally supposed, but the contention
is based on the peculiar wording of the
resolution by which the election of
Mr. Hubbell * was presumed to have
been carried. The resolve which is in
possession of asst. clerk, E. M. Lock-wood,
is in these word?
"Rasolved—That James T. Hubbell
be and he hereby is appointed clerk of
the Court of Burgesses."
Sec. 3, pago 10 of the Borough char­ter
specifically says that the Clerk of
the "Borough," shall be chosen by the
Burgesses, etc. "So that the hair split­ting
falls on the words "Clerk of the
Court of Burgesses," which should
have read, the contestants say, "Clerk
of the Borough." The intent to elect
Mr. Hubbell is clear enough and the
power to elect him by the method
adopted, seems to be admitted, but on
a legal technicality, Messrs. Hurlbutt
and Lockwood claim the board failed
to execute the powers conferred by the
charter by reason of the error in the
wording of the resolution. They fur­ther
assert that no "official'1 or legal
notice has been served on them that
their successors have been appointed;
that they continue in possession of all
the books and records of the Borough
appertaining to their clerkly duties and
that no demand has been made upon
them for a delivery of the same to any
other party, as clerk or otherwise.
This is the position of the old clerks as
stated to the GAZETTE, and it is plain to
see that from their standpoint there is
eupugh in it to hinge quite a lawyerly
contention. The broad, general prin-
; pie involved, however, is not substan-
" tiall.y affected, or changed, that four is
a majority over three and can, as the
four Democratic members of the Bor­ough
board believe, they already have
choBen Messrs. Hubbell and Weed as
Borough Clerk and Assistant Clerk.
Nor will the ethics of the situation be
altered in the average popular Blind,
that few men would want to force
themselves up to a dinner table to
which they were not invited, and cs-pecially
where the party raided upon
is known to be determinedly hostile to
the invasi n. Nevertheless we shall
see what we shall see;
Election at Middletown.
At the Middletown city election yes­terday
the Democrats succeeded in
electing clerk, treasurer, five council-men
and two aldermen. The Republi­cans
elect collector and one councilman.
Biennial City Elections. '
In the Bridgeport city council last
night Councilman Kelley offered a
resolution oalling for biennial city
elections, and it was passed. Council­man
Otis offered a resolution placing
all city boards under the control of
the council. Both motions will go be­fore
the legislature.
zmL* iThe Pole Broke.
A party of twenty-six ladies and gen­tlemen
went'to Stamford.lafet night for
a sleigh-ride. The "barge" Wellington
1 was placed on runners and four horses
attached to the bame. The party start­ed
shortly after 7 o'clock in great glee.
Arriving at Stamford they enjoyed a
; supper, and about 12:30 o'clock started
' for home. AJS they were coming up
; Noroton Hill, the pole horses shied and
• succeeded in breaking the pole It
could not be repaired then, and the
party were forced to walk back to Stam-
; ford, where they put up at a hotel for
the rest of th« night, returning home
on an early morning train.-s^ .
TERSE TALES OF THt TIMES.?
Mr. Z. C. Bush is very sick at his
home on Wilton avenue.
Mi
Four degrees below zero at 7 o' clock
this morning, on Wall street.
In Danbury they call fish markets af­ter
the Boston style, sea food stores. ^
William Taylor of Danbury, was
calling on friends in town, yesterday.
Mrs. John W. Craw of Brooklyn, is
a guest at" William Mitchell's "Rock
Cottage." -
The Borough meeting last night was
one of the largest ever held in the
Town House. .
Miss Ruth Allen of Norwalk, is the
guest of Miss Alice Morgan, of York
street, New Haven. -
The Phoenix boys were out on their
double-dipper again yesterday. Thev
were armed with fish horns.
The trotters were out on the avenue
yesterday afternoon. The " king of
all" was driven by Woodhull. -
—$5 Hanging Lamps reduced to
54.99, 83.50 Lamps reduced to $3.4s>.
H. H. Williams, 15 Wall street. 524-tf
Jeremiah Foley is dead at Stamford
aged 67 years. He was a philosopher,
poet and clam-digger, and never mar­ried."
- :
—Now get the Delineator for Febru­ary
at Benedict's. 524-2t
The Danbury News electric clock
froze* Sunday night, and no wonder for
the mercury denoted 12 degrees below
zero.
—Toilet Paper at Benedict's. Yes !
and a good box of Writing Paper for
10c can be found there. -: ^ 524-2t
Suit against Wm. E. Street of Darien
has been commenced by F. Clark of
Norwalk, who some time ago was bit­ten
by Street's dog.
Isaac Pressy, of Stamford, father of
Capt. I. N. Pressy of this place, and
who has been very sick is reported as
being somewhat better. _.
A young man was arrested last night
for creating a disturbance in ''Satf-dust''
Price's restaurant. He. will be
tried to-morrow morning, r ^
One hundred and eighty-seven years
ago to-day Benjamin Franklin, printer,
electrician, philosopher and patriot
leader, was born in Boston.
A number of Danbury society people
will attend the promenade concert of
the. Knob Outing club, in South Nor­walk,
Wednesday night.—News.
Happy is the coal dealer this zero
weathe>, and happier far is the poor
man whose credit is still solid with the
dispenser of the black diamonds.
A few copies of the DAILY GAZETTE
of December 10th, 1892, containing a
oondensed history of Catholicism in
Norwalk, can be obtained at this office
Thomas Farr, who was injured by a
buzz-saw at the Corsetjfactory the oth­er
day, is getting along nicely. Mr.
Farr is in the employ of Builder Sher­wood.
,
Dr. H. A. Fox, of Dftnbury, while
suffering from a temporary derange­ment
jumped out of the window of his
office in the'second story, yesterday,
fracturing his thigh.
Liverymian Dann will take out two
sleighing parties to-night. ;One a West-port
party whose objective point is
Bridgeport, and the other a part.y from
the Union'Mill s who propose going to
S t a m f o r d . . ' ~ -
An adjourned meeting of the First
Congregational church will be held in
the Chapel on Thursday evening,at 8
o'clock to hear reports of what has been
done the past year in its various de­partments
of work.
Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Thomas, a former
Norwalk M. E. divine, pronounced a
flowing eulogy upon Gen. B. F. But-er
at St. Paul's church, Lowell, Sun­day
evening. Mr. Thomas was a chap­lain
in the Army of the James.
The United States Coast' and Geo­detic
Survey for December, in its
chart corrections contain two on Long
Island Sound; the change in Cornfield
Point Light vessel, and the new black
can buoy at the entrance to Bridge­port
harbor. " --
Senatorial elections wiU occur to day
in the following states': Massachusetts.
Conneotiout, Minnesota, Maine, Dela­ware,
Tennessee and Pennsylvania.
California election was held Jan. 10
and New Jersey, Kansas and West
Virginia will hold their senatorial elec­tion
on Jan. 24. . In-Florida the elec­tion
is not held until April .18, and
Senator Pasco will hold over until his
successor is elected. ^. ^
—The place, A. H. Hoyt St Son, 37
Wall street; Occasion, annual sale, odd
lots. Ladies French kid hand and
machine sewed shoes from $3 to $5
regular price. • We are going to clean
them out at" $1.60/ Also lot regular
price from 32 to $3.50 are going for
$1.25. Also for 30 days commencing
January 15th we will make our yearly
reduction of 50c on every pair of shoes
selling at $2.50, $3.00, S3.50, $4.00,
$4.50 and $5.00. These are regular
lines, well-known by our customers A.
. H. Hoyt & Son.jjK->; v- sS^22 3t
US' SIS 3
Hope Hose Company will hold a so­ciable
at their house next Thursday
jevemng. • • * «
Fields aud Hanson's famous Vauder-ville
show at Music Hall, South Nor­walk,
to-night.
Ex-President R. B. Hayes had a
serious attack . of neuralgia of the
heart, yesterday.
It is stated that a young man living
in Rowayton will wed a Norwalk
widow ere many weeks.
Reports from Washington say that
the backbone of the cold wave is broken
and that warm weather will follow
soon."
Grumman Long, who some years
ago enjoyed the distinction of being
the ''boss fiddler" in this section of the
county was in town this morning.
Messrs. J. K. Raymond and Alva,
Look wood, have purchased th e Adams
market on Main street, The firm
name will be Raymond & Lockwood.
USE DANA'S S ARS AP ARILL A .IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES." .-
Parson Davies of the Greens' Farms
Congregational church will make a
statement to the congregation. If it is
not satisfactory it is understood he will
leave the pulpits
The First Congregational church so­ciety
has engaged the quartette choir
of the South Norwalk Methodist
church. The present choir will be dis­banded
May 1st;
—Hale's Lung Balsam is prepared
from a prescription of a leading phy­sician
and contains-nothing injurious,
is perfectly safe for the youngest
child. Samples free. 524 tf
Remember the meeting in the Meth­odist
church this evening at 7:45 o'clock.
Fine singing by the chorus choir, from
the "Finest of the Wheat." Youug
people and Sunday-school work era spec­ially
invited.
—The stock of Tobacco and Cigars is
always complete at .Benedict's News
depot; hence the large trade he enjoys
in that line. A word to the wise is suf­ficient.
524-2t .
The Rev. Samuel Scoville of the
Congregational church at Stamford, a
son-in-law of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, is making a crusade against
the saloons and gambling establish­ments
in that town.
Cheshire has neither a lawyer nor a
saloon. The next meeting of the
Cheshire -Debating club will discuss
the grave question : "Shall wo import
a lawyer to attract a saloon, or open a
saloon to attract a lawyer ?''
USE DANA'S «ARSAP ARILL A, IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES".
. Ex-Senator D. M. Head, Captain
John Mc Neil and E. N. Sperry of
Bridgeport left yesterday for Washing­ton.
D. C., as delegates from Bridge­port
of the national board of trade, to
b# held to-day at the Stioreham hotel.
A Wise Precaution. • "Oi never see
Mamie goin' to school without her rub­bers
on, Missus Flannigan.
"No; she has to cross the electric
railway thrack, and her fayther thinks
it would be the safest for to wear insu-lathors."—
Harper's Bazar.
The Grand Lodge of the state of
Connecticut meets to-morrow in New
Haven and Mr. Maples' case is to come
up for consideration on charges of
cunduct unbecoming a Mason, while
a member of St. John's Lodge.
Officer Martin found Martin Mulli­gan
stretched out in the Bnow back of
E. K. Lookwood's store, this morn­ing,
and placing him under arrest took
him to the station-house to thaw out
and recover his equilibrium.
A telegram was reoeived by Dr. Van
Alstyne yesterday forenoon announc­ing
the serious and probably fatal ill­ness
of Mrs. VanAlstyne's mother,Mrs.
Amy Dana, living at Waterloo, Iowa.
Mrs. V. left at 2:30 p. m. in order, if
possible, to see her mother before she
might pass away.
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES."
r; Co-Insurance.
A meeting of the local board of fire
underwriters was held at the office of
Clarence B. Coolidge yesterday after­noon,
to take action on the co- nsur-ance
clause which was put in operation
January 1st by the New England Ex­change.
The full board was present.
A.committee consisting of Clarence B.
Coolidge and Richard H. Golden was
appointed to confer with other boards
in Fairfield County, and report at a
meeting to be held at the same hour
and place next Monday afternoon.
An illustration of the working of
the system is as follows: -
Suppose a piece of property vilued at
$10,000 is insured for $8,000, 80 per
cent, of its value. In case of any lo?3,
whether partial or total, it is paid in
full by the companies up to the face of
the policy. If the property is insured
for $5,000, 50 per cent, of its value, in
case of partial loss f of the loss is paid
by the companies, and the assured re­ceives
no indemnity for the remaining
f of the lost. If the same property is
insured for $1,000, 10 per cent, of its
value,'in case of partial loss £ of the
loss is paid by the companies, and the
assured receives no indemnity for the
remaining $ of the loss. In each of
the above cases if the loss is total, the
companies pay full face values of the
policieS.»^M®®^^j for a .new \tri&l£ lis
also to come up. $£ . .. ~ .^§7
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They All
When everybod$^?ho was. interested
in the matter supposed that a recoi'jiof
the vote of the Conhecticut presidential
electors was well .on its way to Wash­ington,
State Secretary Phelon reoei^d
notice that if he wanted th^JUn'i|ed
States Senate to He ih'forme&of how
Connecticut voted| he • had^Better^get-some
stamps on a letter then lyinig;.in
the Hartford post|office. The-stanipi
were at once speeded down towiT, Land
the letter which had .been .pqste^'Un­stamped
was prone^y prepared for the
mails. Nobody confesses to being1 to
blame for the mistake.—Courant. . f'
, r O b i t u a r y • : • > .
Mr. Erastus R. Phelps died at five
o'clock yesterday afternoon,at the.home
of his daughter Mrs. Julia Wilson, No.
8 Arch street, in thp 87th year of his
age. Deceased was born in Hebron,
but until the death of his wife some
six years ago had lived in New Haven,
since which time he had resided with
his daughter. He was a memb-r of a
Now. Ha^en lodge' of Odd Fellows.
The remains will be taken to New Ha­ven,
Thursday morning for interment.
Grade Crossings.
The laws of Connecticut require that
fhe number of railroad crossings at
grade in that state shall be decreased
gradually, but the report of the rail­road
commissioners shows that the
number of such crossings on one road
was increased last year by the addition
of 11. It is true tliat the whole num­ber
in the state Jias fallen from 1,157 to
1,140, but while certain companies have
complied with the statute, at least one
corporation has been permitted, to vio­late
its provisions. Some years ago
the Connecticut commissioners at­tempted
to defend their action in per­mitting
the construction of new and
dangerous crossing at grades by saying
the company so offending was poor and
ought to be assisted in order that it
might meet the competition of wealthy
rivals. That defense did not commend
the wisdom of the commissioners to
the people. If the commissioners can­not
reduce the number of existinjg
grade-crossing traps, surely they ought
to prevent the construction of new
ones.—New York Times. ~
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA.IT'S
"THE KIND THAT CURES. "
Musical Notes.
A call for a meeting to consider the
possibility of organizing a choral so­ciety
is a move in the right direction.
There are plenty of good voices in
Norwalk, and why should thejr not or­ganize
and work together for the ad­vancement
of music. The choral so­ciety,
which is a later growth of the
old fashioned singing school, is a bene­fit
to any city or town where it exists.
Witness the Oratorio Society of Stam­ford,
which has done excellent work
for some years past. In Noroton there
is a choial society, small indeed but
flourishing. The music loving people
of Mount Vernon have recently organ­ized
a society .which is well under way.
A movement is now on foot for the
same purpose in New Canaan, and Sil­ver
Mine is demanding a class in sight
singing.
All this goes to prove that our corner
of New England is alive to the advan­tages
of music as a means of education,
culture and refinement, and though all
these efforts may not be . equally suc­cessful,
yet some good will surely re­sult.
.
There is a curious story told in musi-sical
history concerning the well known
tune "We won't go home till morning."
In 1799, when the army of the first Na­poleon
was in Egypt, his camp was at
one time near the pyramids. In the
afternoons when the band played the
natives gathered around to listen to
the music. (It seems that a brass band
can drawva crowd even in the desert.)
The people were orderly enough until
one afternoon when the musicians
struck up the tune just mentioned. In
"^n instant the Bedouins began the
jvildestTdemonstrations, of joy. They
shouted, danced, and embraced each
other in a perfect delirium of pleaeure.
An investigation revealed the, fact that
this music was a great favorite with
them and the oldest tune of these peo­ple
of the desert.'
It seems that the origin of the tune
is a complete mystery, but that in the
Eleventh century it was taken by the
Crusaders from Europe to Africa, and
had lived separately iu both countries
for over 700 years. . _
Surely if age is a standard, We
wOn?t go home tilLmorning" should A>e
considered classical music of a very
high order. H. H. JB||
iPJ_I_S PSi A Verdict for Six Cents. :|pg,
PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 17.—The jury In
the Haines-Herrick libel case came in
last night with a verdict of six cents
damages for'the plaintiff. • - - r
|g| A Good One on "Scofe." |J|
There has long existed a good na-tured
yet . earnest rivalry between two
neighboris residing on near, yet quiet
and sedate, Belden avenue, as to which
should secure the finest and choicest
brands of cider. This competition ran-more
fieroe the past fall than us­ual,
for the reason chiefly we presume,
that the last apple crop was a failure
and ergo, cider, scarce and high, and
with a chronic tendency towards being
reduced by illicit contact with the hon­est
farmers' cooling wells or springs of
water. By way of a clearer designa­tion
we will denominate one of these
rivals the east-sider and the other the
west-sider. Now, it eventuated early
in the Autumn,, that the West-sider got
a really superior though very small,
installment from patriotic and thrifty
"Comstock Hill" that was conceded a
little ahead of anything shown on Bel­den
avenue up to that date. This ex­cited
the spirit of commercial rivalry
in the breast of the East-sider at once.
He resolved to beat Comstock Hill's
product, or perish in the endeavor. So
he scoured Darien, Stamford^ North
Stamford and White Oak Shade; got
divers "samples." but all proved to be
below grade. At length he heard of
an honest Teuton, a man from the ro­mantic
and lesjendery wine producing
land'of the Rhone and the Rhine, who
having come to America and settled on
high, sightly and salubrious Belden
Hill, had essayed to throw all the in­herited
skill and talent of his wine
making ancestors for ten centuries, in­to'the
manufacture of sound, solid, un-impeaohed
and unimpeachable Con­necticut
apple juice. The friend from
the Fader land had carefully hand
picked his Roxbury Russets at the
latest period of safety. Had piled them
high on the cool barn floor, covered
with clean rye straw—so that they
might there tweat, and mellow and
ripen to the exact point of perfect
juice—or so he said he did. East-side
was not long in urging his coal black
steeds up to the good German's house.
The visitation was rapidly explained,
and the enthusiastic Rhinelander, flat­tered
at such unexpected attention,
effusively protested that.he had "Ciders
dat was so petter ash good ash never
vasand forthwith hurried for a test­ing
sample in his wife's choicest bric-a-
brac milk pitcher. * "Now you tastes
and you schmelles dat ciders and you see
dot it is ish so petter as lager-peer.
Yahs, 'it is so petter ' as all de Rhine
wines as ish made; de- Zinfaudel, La-rose,
Medoc, Lafits, Yquem, BougeOt,
Chablis, Beaujolais, Qautent, Johtin-nisburg,
Marcobrunner, ; Reedeschei-mer,
Stein win, Leibfraumlich,' Niers-teioner.
Laubeuheimer, Bodenheimer,
Hocheimer," and'a; dozen:other .Dutch
"Heimers" which Teuton rolled off in
such hurr'ed gutteral, as nearly took
East-side's breath away. He drank of
the cider,—once, twice and thrice—
'then confessed it was a pleasanter bev­erage
than any Rhine wine he" had
ever sampled, whether made in Ger­many,
France or New Jersey: An or­der
was promptly given for a forty-five
gallon cask of the melliflious apple
juice. It was to be delivered at once.
It came. West-side was invited over
to taste, and submit to humiliation and
defeat. But somehow, it had a peculiar
dead end insipid flavor, and left a dark.
brown taste in the mouth. East-side
admitted the soft and sweet impeach­ment
; in fact he remarked his sus­picions
that the bull-frog croaking
Dutchman, had doctored it with silicic
acid, to prevent fomentation and keep
it sweet and if he could'nt rpe.-" It isn't safe to speak
of frozen cider-to' East-sider now, un­less
your lines of retredt are open. .,..
• - 111!..H... Cbld.
•' The thermometer at the residence of
Mr. Charles Arnold on Camp street
registered at half past seven this morn­ing
twelve below zero.
p§ _ Borough Meetings.
- AFTERNOON. - •
"*"*A fire was started in.the tuilding
known as the Town House, yesterday
morning, but the place was as ohilly as
a freshly filled ice house when some
thirty odd voters assembled for the pur­pose
of laying a tax to provide for the.
necessary expenses of the borough du­ring
the ensuing year.
Warden Sloan called the meeting to
•rder, at the same time thoughtfully
suggesting that as it was decidedly chil­ly
those assembled keep their hats on.
The call for the meeting as promul­gated
through the columns of the press
was read by Clerk Hubbell. He had
however scarcely finished before ex-assistant
borough clerk LockWood arose
and questioned the legality of the doc­ument
as read, an
^iTo Skate To Stamford.
Joe Donoghue, A. S. Franklin and
John Ennisof New York agreed yester­day
to skate 100 miles at Stamford,
Conn., for glory. They have been try­ing
fo$ sometime to make a match for
money, but could not arrange it.
' ' ' 'ffgCouncll Meeting.;
An adjourned meeting of the Board
of COuncilmen was held last evening at
the council chamber on Haviland
street. Mayor George Lockwood pro-"
sided and the full board was present.
Bills to the amount of $93.48 were pre­sented.
Petitions for the position of Street
Commissioner were received from C.
L. James and Wm. S. Wilcox. Tabled.
Petition was received from residents
of Stuart awnne for an electric light
to be placed at the corner of Vall9y
Place and Stuart avenue. Referred to
proper committee.
The next business before the meet­ing
was the balloting for a Chief Engi­neer
of the fire department^ The re­sult
of the ballot showed five votes
against Samuel McGowan's confirma­tion
and one in favor. The clerk was
then instructed to communicate with
the secretary of the fire department,
asking that he call a meeting of the de­partment
and have them, if they so
desired, present another name for the
consideration of the council before the
next meeting to be held Friday even­ing,
January 20th. «
Nelson Taylor's resignation as one
of the electric light commissioners was
received, read, and accepted -with a
vote of thanks to Mr. Taylor for the
efficient services he had rendered.
Councilman Yolk explained that Mr.
Taylor had accepted the position with
the understanding that he should re­sign
as soon as the new plant was com­pleted.
The meeting then adjourned until
Friday evening, January 20th, 1893, at
7.30 o'clock.
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' MUSIC HAMi.
The attraction at Music Hall to-night
is a new one, just placei on the road
this season but in the language of the
town small boy its a bully good show;
Singing, Dancing, Novelty and Sen­sation
and uproariously funny comedy
all have part in the excellent pro­gramme
and it is a foregone xsonclus-ion
that in Fields & Hansons Drawing
Cards we are to have a genuine treat,
Ktllar, the Pido-Manual Phenomenon
of Berlin is one feature alone worth
the admission.
^ KILLED BY ELECTRICITY. H
Kernel Lotli, the Murderer of Mrs. Dem-acselc
In ths DcatU Clialr.
DANNEM'OEA, N. Y., Jan. 17.—Kornel||||
Loth, a Hungarian, 26 years of age, met
death by electricity in Clinton prison at '
11.51 yesterday.mornifij^V . -F
-Th^ eScm! time of execution was asgg||
folio'.vs: Entry into, death cell, 11.401?5
a. m.; time occupied in strapping, 32^^
seconds; length of tirst contact, 50 sec-||g§
onds; interva. between contacts, 5 sec- |f®
onds; length of secorid contact, 3seconds;||||
entire time victim was in death chamber^!
until death was announced, 2 minutes 55|,r^
seconds.
The apparatus used was the same as thatgg?
in the other State prisons, and the sam«^
as used in the case of Wood last summer j •
at this prison. The only innovation wasi^
the introduction of the diminishing cur­rent,
wch the State electrician believes""-,
prevents any muscular or nervous reac-tion.
Loth had no friends and his body "
will be buried in quick lime in the prison
burial plot. . -> ,
? 7" The Farmers May Retaliate.' 1
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 17.—The black- - '
smiths in Lyons, Alloway and other""
places in Wayne county, have effected
combination, and one of the first things"^
to attract attention January 1, when thesp|
combination went into effect, was an in-|g|j
crease in the price of re-setting from 12%||g|
cents to 15 cents and for setting new shoes^
from 25 cents to 30 cents. The black-.,- -
smiths in Phelps did not enter this com-bination
and now the farmers are driving.^
several miles out of their way to reach apgg
non-alliance shop. Farmers talk of boy-; "
cotting the alliance. - ( "
5 "Winter Cholera iu Albany. £§|f|
'"^JBANY, N. Y., Jan. 17.-It is.stated by
the physicians at the City Hospital that ||g
there is an unusual amount of sickness in
this city at the prtesent time and the bos- |gg
pital is crowded. The majority of theggg
cases are of winter cholera and some of
them have resulted fatally.
Free Trip to Washington Records
Following is the score to date, of the
balloting iu the contest for the GA­ZETTE'S
free railroad ticket to Wash­ington,
D. C., and return, on the occas­ion
of President Cleveland's inaugura­tion
:
Bhody McGmnis
James M. Cre&gh.
E.N.Sloan „ ,
Oliver K Mumford
James T. Hubbell
Isaac Bowe
JSrauk Street
Thomas Ward Jr
James Mitchell
Owing to the large number of single ballots
handed in we have decided to publish th®
names only of those candidates Yjho have re­ceived
ten or more votes. - -pia-•- •
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